Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
Mystery is not profoundness.
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric, writer and collector
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